Paper-file.



G. SLEMIN, JR.

PAPER FILE.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 6, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SLEMIN, JR., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO YAWMAN & ERBEMANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEWYORK.

PAPER-FILE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES SLEMIN, Jr., of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Paper-Files; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and tothe reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to improvements in devices for filingletters, bills and other papers in such a manner that they may bereadily and conveniently examined at any time, and it is the object ofmy present invention to provide an improved device that enables thedrawers or other receptacles containing the papers to be withdrawn fromtheir cabinet or holder and suspended therefrom in a tilted or inclinedposition to enable the papers to be inspected, an upward motion of thedrawer serving to disengage the members of the supporting device andthereby permit the drawer to be entirely removed from its cabinet.

To these and other ends my invention relates to certain features ofconstruction that will be hereinafter more fully explained and pointedout in the claims hereunto annexed.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view through acabinet, and the drawers contained therein, to which my improvementshave been applied: Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a drawer removed fromthe cabinet, showing one of the supporting members attached thereto; andFig. 3 is a plan view showing the position of the drawer within itscabinet.

The same numerals of reference designate similar parts in the severalviews.

I have shown my present invention as applied to an ordinary filingcabinet wherein the drawers are adapted to be drawn out forwardly untilthey reach the limit of their motion, and they are then released topermit them to assume a tilted or inclined position, and in the resentembodiment, the cabinet may inclu e any number of receptacles 1 that areadapted to receive the drawers 2, the latter in this instance embodyingthe base board 3 rovided at its forward and rear edges wit the endpieces 4 and 5 respectively, and at its lateral edge with the side board6, the opposite lateral edge of the drawer being left open, the follower7 being employed having its respective ends journaled in the end pieces4 and 5 at points adjacent the side board 6 for retaining the papers intheir proper position within the drawer. Upon the rear end piece 4,preferably adjacent the open side of the drawer, I provide a supportingmember 8 preferably formed from sheet material and embodying a flatsecuring plate that may be screwed or otherwise fastened to the drawer,and which is provided with a lateral extension or finger 9 which isturned rearwardly substantially at right angles to the plane of thefastening plate and extends upwardly at an oblique angle to the rear ofthe drawer. Within each of the drawer receptacles are provided thesupporting plates 10, each of which preferably embodies a fiat plate,having the offset attaching ends 11, which are suitably secured to thelateral wall of the receptacle in proximity to the forward openingtherein, and are preferably disposed obliquely or angularly across thepath of the supporting finger 9 of the drawer. Thus it will be seen thatas each drawer is withdrawn from the cabinet, the supporting finger 9thereon will engage the supporting plate 10 which lies in its path as itmoves forwardly, thereby arresting the further motion of the drawer in aforward direction, and as the attendant releases his grasp upon thehandle 12, the forward portion of the drawer will tilt downwardly,causing the drawer to assume a position similar to that shown by thelower drawer in Fig. 1. In assuming this position, the supporting finger9 of the drawer will take up a position between the supporting plate 10of the cabinet and the lateral wall thereof, thereby constituting a firmsupport that will effectually sustain the drawer in a tilted or inclinedposition. However, whenever it may be found desirable to entirely removethe drawer from its cabinet to enable the papers therein to be removedor otherwise handled, the drawer is drawn forwardly, in the usualmanner, but when it approaches its limit of motion, the forward endthereof is tilted upwardly, causing the upper end of the su portingfinger 9 of the drawer to pass beneat 1 and thus clear the supportingplate 10, and in this manner the drawer may be completely removed.

A device of this character may be readily and conveniently applied tovarious forms of drawers or similar devices wherein it is desirable tosecure a tilting motion of the character herein described, and as it iscomparatively simple and inexpensive in its construction and simple inoperation, the utility of the device will be readily apparent, it beingunderstood that while such an improvement is particularly useful whenapplied to a drawer or receptacle wherein the papers are so placed thatthey may be turned over during inspection like the Leaves of a book,still the same may be advantageously applied to various other types ofdrawers or paper receptacles with equally good results.

i claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a suitable cabinet having a drawer receptacletherein, and a drawer adapted to operate in the receptacle, of asupporting member arranged on the side of the cabinet above the bottomof the drawer receptacle and a supporting member arranged on the rear ofthe drawer and adapted to engage with the supporting member of thecabinet by a forward movement only of the drawer to prevent the completewithdrawal of the latter, said supporting members being so constructedand arranged that when engaged the drawer may drop to and be held in adownwardly tilted position or may be raised at its front to permit thesupporting member on the drawer to pass below that on the cabinet.

2. The combination with a suitable cabinet having a drawer receptacle,and a drawer adapted to operate in said receptacle, of a supportingmember secured to the drawer receptacle of the cabinet above the bottomthereof, and a supporting member secured to the rear of the drawerhaving an upwardly extending finger arranged to automatically engagewith the supporting member of the cabinet by a forward movement only ofthe drawer, to support the drawer in a tilted position when the drawerdrops downwardly at its forward end and to pass below the supportingmember on the cabinet when the drawer is tilted upwardly at its forwardend.

3. The combination with a cabinet having a drawer receptacle and adrawer adapted to operate in said receptacle, of a member carried by thedrawer and a member in the receptacle engaged by the member on thedrawer upon a forward movement only of the latter and constructed topermit the drawer to move to a downwardly tilted position when themembers are engaged and to permit the member on the drawer to passbeneath it when the drawer is tilted upwardly at its forward end.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination with thecabinet or holder, having drawer-receptacles therein and a platearranged angularly upon the vertical wall of the receptacle having anoffset attaching portion, of a drawer or file slidingly mounted in thereceptacle of the cabinet, and a plate secured to the rear portionthereof and provided with a rearwardly and upwardly extendingprojection, arranged to engage the offset portion of the angularlyarranged plate in the receptacle and retain the drawer in an inclined ortilted position when withdrawn from the cabinet.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with thecabinet having a drawer receptacle, and a laterally projecting platearranged obliquely upwardly and rearwardly upon one of the side walls ofthe receptacle, of a drawer slidingly mounted in the receptacle, and aplate secured to the rear portion thereof having a portion extendingrearwardly and vertically therefrom and adapted to cooperate with thelaterally projecting plate of the receptacle to arrest the forwardmotion of the drawer and to support the latter in a relatively inclinedposition.

6. The combination with a cabinet having a drawer receptacle, and adrawer adapted to operate in said receptacle, of a supporting membercarried by the cabinet above the bottom of the drawer receptacle, and asupporting member carried by the drawer and arranged to engage themember on the cabinet on an outwardly sliding movement only, saiddrawer-carried member being formed to slide on the cabinet-carriedmember to permit the drawer to drop at its forward end, and beingadapted to pass beneath the cabinet-carried member when the drawer istilted upwardly at its forward end.

CHAS. SLEMIN, JR.

Witnesses:

CLARENCE A. BATEMAN, G. WILLARD R1011.

